MP3 Winners and Losers for 2003

Posted by michael on Friday January 2, 2004 @11:55AM from the getting-pretty-tired-of-2003-wrapups-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Richard Menta over at MP3newswire.net just posted his annual winners and losers list in digital music for last year. The big winner is Apple for dominating MP3 portable player sales and the dramatic success of its iTunes service. Napster savior Roxio and the small independent record labels also made the winners list. The losers list include SonicBlue and MP3.com. Interestingly, Ogg Vorbis made the losers list, not because of the codec per se, but because iTunes has both catapulted the AAC format to number two and stimulated Microsoft to pour more of its efforts ($$$) into WMA and the iTunes clones, leaving little room left for the open source alternative. The 2001 and 2002 winners list are worth a look too and each have links to that year's losers list."

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And the winner is ... by asadchev · 2004-01-02 12:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

... Madonna,
for her hit mp3 "What the fuck do you think you are doing?"
Re:ITMS is the true winner by BasilBrush · 2004-01-02 14:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

As if the AC wasn't enough of a clue. You're a Microsoft fanboy! LOL. iTunes bigger then MS Office my ass. What a baffoon you are.